Could I raise fish in a stagnant water pond? - 03/13/17 01:47 AM
I recently moved from a big city to a small town close to a mountain range. I have about 1700m2 of unbuilt land in Argentina, San Luis, close to Merlo.
The weather is mostly mild and dry, people say its the third microclimate in the world (i have no idea what that means). The median annual temperature is around 20c (68f), in summer it can be >35c (95f) and in winter <-0c (23f) (last winter only a few days were below zero tho).
I've seen a small pond (less than 2.5mts diameter circle) in a friends of the family land, where they have koi fish. The water is dark green and totally stagnant (idk if they renew it or something). I know they have had the same fish for at least a few years without any issues (they are huge).
I wanted to have something similar but with fish I could eventually eat. My idea is to build an L shaped pond in a corner of the land (max size could be around 18mtsx3mts on one side of the L and same or more in the other side, no idea on the depth (I'd probably want it smaller since I would build it by hand).
I heard that in a town close to me they raise trouts, but its a town closer to the mountain where they have access to natural running water (small creeks running down the mountain).
My main question is, since I don't have access to this kind of water, I would have a stagnant water pond, the best I could do is maybe have a portable pool filter (I do have a big pool with pump and filter but it's on the other side of the land, far away from where I want the pond so I can't make use of that). Could I still have a pond to raise fish that I could eventually use as food in these circustances?
If it's still possible to achieve what I want, what kind of fish and aireation/filtering system should I use?
The weather is mostly mild and dry, people say its the third microclimate in the world (i have no idea what that means). The median annual temperature is around 20c (68f), in summer it can be >35c (95f) and in winter <-0c (23f) (last winter only a few days were below zero tho).
I've seen a small pond (less than 2.5mts diameter circle) in a friends of the family land, where they have koi fish. The water is dark green and totally stagnant (idk if they renew it or something). I know they have had the same fish for at least a few years without any issues (they are huge).
I wanted to have something similar but with fish I could eventually eat. My idea is to build an L shaped pond in a corner of the land (max size could be around 18mtsx3mts on one side of the L and same or more in the other side, no idea on the depth (I'd probably want it smaller since I would build it by hand).
I heard that in a town close to me they raise trouts, but its a town closer to the mountain where they have access to natural running water (small creeks running down the mountain).
My main question is, since I don't have access to this kind of water, I would have a stagnant water pond, the best I could do is maybe have a portable pool filter (I do have a big pool with pump and filter but it's on the other side of the land, far away from where I want the pond so I can't make use of that). Could I still have a pond to raise fish that I could eventually use as food in these circustances?
If it's still possible to achieve what I want, what kind of fish and aireation/filtering system should I use?